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PECO Customers Save $350 Million and Counting with PECO Smart Ideas

Customers save more than 1.5 million megawatt hours of electricity

July 1, 2014

PECO customers have saved more than $350 million with PECO Smart Ideas, the company's highly successful suite of energy efficiency programs. Since the programs launched in 2009, customers have benefited from more than $220 million in energy savings and received more than $130 million in rebates, discounts and incentives on energy-efficient products.

Customers have saved more than 1.5 million megawatt hours of electricity. That's enough electricity to power 10,000 average U.S. homes for more than a year, keep New York City lit for about a month or power 50 professional football stadiums for about 1,000 games. This energy savings also has the same environmental impact as removing about 145,000 cars from roadways or planting more than 1.6 million trees.

'PECO Smart Ideas has programs to help every customer save energy and money,' said Liz Murphy, PECO vice president of Governmental and External Affairs. 'We are thrilled with the savings these programs have provided our customers and encourage our customers to continue to participate in the many programs available to help them manage their energy needs.'

PECO also recently increased the rebate amounts available for many electric appliances and HVAC equipment models to provide more savings for customers. All ENERGY STAR® refrigerators now qualify for a $75 rebate, which means more choices and more opportunities to save. These changes were approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and began on June 1.

PECO Smart Ideas is part of the company's support of Pennsylvania's energy efficiency and demand response targets - Act 129. Act 129 required all Pennsylvania electric utilities to develop programs to help customers reduce energy use by 1 percent by May 31, 2011 and 3 percent by May 31, 2013. Act 129 also requires utilities to help customers reduce their energy usage by an additional 2.9 percent by May 31, 2016.

Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC). PECO serves 1.6 million electric and more than 500,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the region. PECO delivered 85.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 37.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013. Founded in 1881, PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia Region's most active corporate citizens, providing leadership, volunteer and financial support to numerous arts and culture, education, environmental, economic development and community programs and organizations. For more information visit PECO.com, and connect with the company on Facebook and Twitter.